#Airfoil for mac issues with airplay speaker mac#

Then you should be able to send commands to the Mac like this where the IP and port refer to the Mac: Once you understand that, do the same thing between the Pi and the Mac. Then when you go to SSH to the Pi you wonвЂ™t have to enter a password.

#Airfoil for mac issues with airplay speaker install#

Use ssh-keygen or something similar to create the pair and read up on where to install them in your particular system (or in your terminal emulator). If you havenвЂ™t already, you can practice this by seeing if you can set up passwordless SSH between whatever computer youвЂ™re using to program the Pi and the Pi itself (assuming youвЂ™re running the Pi headless). Sure, the first step is to set up a public/private key pair between the server (Mac in this case) and the client (your pi). This automation will run the script any time you hit return after changing the contents of the input_text: - id: id 19

Bonus round: put an input_text field in lovelace where you can type something and your HA will speak!.

Now put it together in scripts or automations with a slight delay to allow the HomePods to connect- you may have to tailor the timing to your network:.

Play_announce: 'afplay '/users/username/.homeassistant/www/sounds/tibetanbowl.mp3'' Play_woof: 'afplay '/users/username/.homeassistant/www/sounds/woof.mp3'' Say_no_moleste: 'say -v paulina 'No moleste per favor.''

put your commands in configuration.yaml like so:Д¬onnect_homepods: '/users/username/.homeassistant/www/scripts/connect_homepods.sh'.

Set (volume of every speaker whose id begins with 'XX') to 0.4

Here weвЂ™re going to use a bash script to call some AppleScript to control Airfoil (in my case called connect_homepods.sh) put it in #!/bin/bashД¬onnect to (every speaker whose id starts with 'XXXXXXXXXX1')Д¬onnect to (every speaker whose id starts with 'XXXXXXXXXX2').

Use Bonjour browser (now called вЂњDiscoveryвЂќ) or whatever else to find the MAC addresses of your HomePods/speakers.

One item of note: Airfoil doesnвЂ™t currently support HomePod stereo pairs, so it seems to randomly pick one of the two in the pairвЂ¦ please go to Rogue AmoebaвЂ™s site and request this feature!

This lets you use an applescript to connect the desired speakers as needed (see below).

Install Airfoil, which I leave running all the time.

#Airfoil for mac issues with airplay speaker download#

go to system preferences -> accessibility -> speech and download the voices that you want to use.

You can even specify the accent and gender of the voice using the - v flag with say. I was playing around with tts/media player components and then finally realized that using shell commands in HA that call the afplay and say built-in utilities I could do what I wanted.

Make HomePods (or any other Airplay speakers) the voice of HA.Some of this may be possible on the venerable Pi, but what IвЂ™ll describe here is tailored for Catalina. Since then IвЂ™ve figured out a few fun tricks that leverage the MacOS and its ecosystem, and having benefited from a lot of kind individuals helping me get un-stuck while building my HA, I feel like putting this out there is a way to give back. This is a followup to my post about installing HA on MacOS here.